Austria vs Finland: Annual patent applications per million people

Austria
209.03 applications per million people
in 2021
Finland
281 applications per million people
in 2021
Austria rank
10th
Finland rank
7th

Annual patent applications per million people over time

  • Austria
  • Finland
0100200300400500198020002021

How they compare

Finland currently reports 281 applications per million people against 209.03 applications per million people in Austria, a difference of 71.97 applications per million people.

That makes Finland's figure about 1.3 times Austria's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 42 shared years of data; in 1980 it was Austria ahead.

Austria ranks 10th and Finland ranks 7th of 135 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Annual patent applications per million people
Unit
applications per million people
Source
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), via World Bank (2026); United Nations Population Division, national statistical offices, and Eurostat, via World Bank (2026) – processed by Our World i
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
135 places, 3,804 data points, 1980–2021
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